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Acetoin

May exist as crystalline dimer

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Synonym(s):
3-Hydroxy-2-butanone, Acetylmethylcarbinol
Linear Formula:
CH3COCH(OH)CH3
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
88.11
Beilstein:
385636
EC Number:
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
12352100
PubChem Substance ID:
NACRES:
NA.22

Quality Level

Assay

≥98.0% (GC)

form

crystals

refractive index

n20/D 1.417 (lit.)

bp

148 °C (lit.)

mp

15 °C (monomer)
90 °C (dimer) (lit.)

density

1.013 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

food allergen

no known allergens

storage temp.

2-8°C

SMILES string

CC(O)C(C)=O

InChI

1S/C4H8O2/c1-3(5)4(2)6/h3,5H,1-2H3

InChI key

ROWKJAVDOGWPAT-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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Eye Dam. 1 - Flam. Liq. 3

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WGK 1

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dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Gloves

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Zhen Liu et al.
Bioresource technology, 102(22), 10741-10744 (2011-09-29)
Production of highly pure (2S,3S)-2,3-butanediol ((2S,3S)-2,3-BD) and (3S)-acetoin ((3S)-AC) in high concentrations is desirable but difficult to achieve. In the present study, glucose was first transformed to a mixture of (2S,3S)-2,3-BD and meso-2,3-BD by resting cells of Klebsiella pneumoniae CICC
M Otsuka et al.
Journal of chromatography, 577(2), 215-220 (1992-06-10)
Acetoin was quantitatively oxidized into diacetyl by Fe3+ in 1 M perchloric acid. The reaction of diacetyl with 4,5-dichloro-1,2-diaminobenzene afforded 6,7-dichloro-2,3-dimethylquinoxaline (DCDMQ), which was extracted by benzene containing aldrin (25 ng/ml) as an internal standard, and determined by gas chromatography
Maria del Pilar Marquez-Villavicencio et al.
PloS one, 6(8), e22974-e22974 (2011-08-31)
Pectobacterium species are necrotrophic bacterial pathogens that cause soft rot diseases in potatoes and several other crops worldwide. Gene expression data identified Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum budB, which encodes the α-acetolactate synthase enzyme in the 2,3-butanediol pathway, as more highly
E Y Hirooka et al.
International journal of food microbiology, 7(3), 185-191 (1988-12-01)
Seventy-three staphylococcal strains isolated from pyrodermatitis in dogs were classified as Staphylococcus intermedius (52 strains) or Staphylococcus aureus (21 strains) on the basis of acetoin formation, anaerobic mannitol fermentation, aerobic maltose fermentation, pigmentation, coagulation of human plasma, and reaction on
Zijun Xiao et al.
Critical reviews in microbiology, 33(2), 127-140 (2007-06-15)
Acetoin is an important physiological metabolite excreted by many microorganisms. The excretion of acetoin, which can be diagnosed by the Voges Proskauer test and serves as a microbial classification marker, has its vital physiological meanings to these microbes mainly including

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